Thomas Gold
Astronomer
1920 – 2004
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Who was Thomas Gold?
Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.
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- Born
- May 22, 1920
Vienna - Parents
- Spouses
- Merle Eleanor Tuberg
(1947 - ) - Carvel Lee Beyer
(1972 - 2004/06/22)
- Merle Eleanor Tuberg
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Austria
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Jun 22, 2004
Ithaca
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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